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but saw nothing either of tiger or bison in this 

 expedition. The firing of the grass had not 

 commenced, and the bison were all in the 

 hills. 



I have walked for days in company with Indian 

 shikaris and trackers in jungles in which tigers 

 and panthers were numerous, and have hunted 

 before dawn and until dusk, but I have never 

 had the good fortune to meet a tiger or a panther 

 casually. With Kana I always hunted until 

 we could see no more, and he would find his way 

 back to the camp in the dark, through a 

 trackless forest, with the unerring instinct of 

 an animal. 



After shooting the buffaloes I went from the 

 Central Provinces to Kashmir, and at the end 

 of February I had a very successful shoot for 

 hangul (barasingh) in the Dachingam Reserve. 

 In three successive days, with the aid of Sultana, 

 a Kashmir shikari, I stalked and shot two good 

 stags and a serow. Both the stags had fine 

 heads, with horns 42 inches long. One of them 

 was a twelve-pointer with a very symmetrical 

 head, but one tine was broken. This has, how- 

 ever, been well repaired by the taxidermists, 

 Edward Gerrard and Sons. The other was a 

 ten-pointer, but the horns were very massive, 

 being 6J inches round the beam above the brow- 

 tine. The spread also was very fine, the width 

 from tip to tip outside being 42! inches. 



I was very anxious to shoot a red bear, and made 

 a second expedition to Dachigam in the month 

 of March for the purpose; but without success. 

 It was early in the season, and red bears axe 



